Friday, June 27, 2008

What Do We Really Know?

Here is a "sic transit gloria mundi" video... You get to watch ants devour a gecko....



Here is a "seeing is believing" video... You get to decide what is real and what isn't...



And if you want to understand why the world is a veil of illusions, read this NY Times article entitled "Your Brain Lies to You" in which a molecular biologist, Sam Wang, explains one teensy-tiny bit of why the world is not your oyster, that reality is not handed to you on a platter.

Or, read this New Yorker magazine article by Atul Gawande call "The Itch" that explains how, if you are persistent, you can reach out and really touch your brain in a way that will truly horrify you. Oh, and in explaining that, it also helps you understand how you can make a phantom limb disappear.

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